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31n itttmonam. 



MEMORIAL SERVICES 



IN HONOR OF 



JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD, 

(CIE)e (iCttjentictb JStej^ibent of tftc SanitcD ^tate0» 



HELD AT SEA, 
ON THE CUNARD STEAMSHIP "SCYTHIA," 

September 26, 1881. 



Hon. MARCUS P. NORTON, 

OF NEW YORK AND BOSTON, 

CHAIRMAN. 

LEWIS C. LILLIE, 

OF NEW YORK AND BOSTON, 

SECRETARY. 



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SccontJ lEliition. 



BOSTON: 

FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, & CO. 

1882. 




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AUTHOE^S ]^OTE. 



Of the first edition of the book, — giving an 
account of the " Memorial Services " held at sea on 
the t\yenty-sixth day of September, 1881, in honor 
of James Abram Garfield, the assassinated Presi- 
dent, — there were twelve hundred copies printed. 
One thousand copies of that edition were forwarded 
to those persons who subscribed for the same while 
passengers on board the Cunard Steamship " Scythia," 
in the main saloon of which those impressive and 
interesting services were held. 

I have thought it best to issue another edition 
in order to supply the demand. There have been 
a very few verbal changes made in some of the 
Addresses, especially so in that by the Chairman, 
which was written in a hurried manner, just before 
the assembling of the passengers in the Main Sa- 
loon at 2 o'clock afternoon of the same day. 

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During that writing the winds were very strong, and 
the great ship was rocking about on the waves of 
an angry sea — hence I have felt justified in mak- 
ing corrections in that address, and in giving to 
others an opportunity to make such corrections in 
their addresses, respectively, as they might desire. 

Both editions have been issued without any com- 
pensation in money or of property value, or the hope 
of any. from any source whatever. If this little vol- 
ume shall be of use or benefit to any one, and carry 
with it honorable remembrances and kindly feelings 
through the coming years, and serve in some degree 
to perpetuate in the hearts of the hving the hon- 
ored name, as well as the honorable life, of the great 
and illustrious dead, whose earthly life was closed at 
Elberon, in New Jersey, in the month of September, 
A.D. 1881, by a fatal wound received at the hands 
of an assassin in the capital of the American Tnion 
on the second day of July, 1881, at a railway sta- 
tion, I shall be glad, and more than compensated 
for all the time, care, and expense of it. 

MAKCUS P. NORTON. 
BosTOX, Mass., June 14, 1882. 



CO^^TEJSTTS. 



PAGE 

Proclamation by President Arthur 7 

Notice of Memorial Services to be held on board the Steamship 

" ScYTHiA," at Sea 8 

Apjfointmeut of Chairman to preside at the " Memorial Ser- 
vices " 9 

Hon. Marcus P. Norton, of New York and Boston, elected 

Chairman 9 

Hymn, "Nearer, my God, to Thee" 10 

Prayer by Rev. James M. King, D.D., of New York, N.Y. . 11 
The Order of the Addresses made at "Memorial Sei-vices " in 

the " Main Saloon " of the " Scytiiia " . . . .11 
James A. Garfield's Record in Brief : a Convenient Summary, 1-3 

Assassination of President Garfield 14 

" Burial Services," solemnized at the City of Cleveland, Ohio, 

Sept. 26, 1881 U 

Address of Hon. Marcus P. Norton, Chairman, at " Memorial 

Services " on the " Scythia," at Sea, Sept. 26, 1881 . 17-37 
Address of Judge Charles A. Peabody, of New York City, 41-47 
Address of Rev. H. N. McTyeire, of Nashville, Tenn., Bishop 

of " The Methodist Episcopal Church South " . . . 51-55 
Address of Judge U. M. Rose, of Little Rock, Ark. . . 59-62 
Address of Judge Edward H. East, of Nashville, Tenn. . 65-68 
Address by Rev. Father M. J. Masterson, of Catholic Church at 

Peabody, Mass 71-72 

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PAGE 

Address of General Cyrus Bcssey, President of the " New Orleans 

Chamber of Commerce," New Orleans, La. . . . 75-83 

Resolutions concerning the Assassination of President Gar- 
field, expressing Profound Sympathy with Mrs. Garfield 
and Family 81 

Resolutions by General Bussey, seconded by Hon. F. A. 

Ward, of Brooklyn, N.Y., in appropriate Address . . 83 

Announcement of " National Hymn," ^^ My Country! 'tis of Thee," 

l)y Wkv. John P. Newman, D.D., LL.D., of Xew York . 83 

National Hymn, " il/?/ Cou/J^r^.' 'tis of Thee" . . . .84 

Secretary's Memorandum concerning the Address of Hon. 

Augustus Belmont, of New York City . . . .85 

Secretary's Memorandum concerning the Address of Hon. F. A. 

Ward, of Brooklyn, N.Y 85 

Motion for Adjournment sine die, by Eev. Dr. John P. New- 
man 11, 85 

Adjournment 85 

List of Saloon Passengers on board of 77ie Royal IMail 
Steamship " Scythia," on the twenty-sixth day of September, 
A.D. 1881, at Sea 89 




ilTcmorial ScrtJtcc0, 



In compliance with the following proclamation 
and notice, more than two hundred and fifty passen- 
gers, representing Europe and America, assembled at 
two o'clock in the afternoon of Sept. 26, 1881, in 
the main Saloon of the steamship " Scythia," which 
was appropriately draped and arranged for the solemn 
occasion : — 

By the President of the United States of America : 

A PROCLAMATION. 

Wliereas, In his inscrutable wisdom, it has pleased God to 
remove from us the illustrious head of the nation, James A. 
Garfield, late President of the United States ; and 

Wiereas, It is fitting that the deep grief which fills all 
hearts should manifest itself with one accord toward the throne 
of Infinite Grace, and that we should bow before the Almighty 
and seek from him that consolation ui our affliction and that 
sanctification of our loss which he is able and willing to vouch- 
safe ; 

Now, therefore, in obedience to sacred duty, and in accord- 



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ance with the desire of the people, I, Cukster A. Arthur, 
President of the United .States of America, do hereby appoint 
Monday next, the twenty-sixth day of September, on which 
day the remains of our honored and beloved dead will be con- 
signed to their last resting-place on earth, to be observed 
throughout the United States as a day of humiliation and 
mourning ; and I earnestly recommend all the people to assem- 
ble on that day in their respective places of divine worship, 
there to render alike their tribute of sorrowful submission to 
the will of Almighty God, and of reverence and love for the 
memory and character of our late chief magistrate. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused 
the seal of the Uuited States to be aflixed. 

Done at the city of "Washington, the twenty-second day of 
September, in the year of our Lord 1881, and of the independ- 
ence of the United States the one hundred and sixth. 

Chester A. Arthur. 
By the President : 

[seal.] James G. Blaine, Secretary of State. 

NOTICE. 

'■'• Capt. Murphy, in command of the steamship 'Sctthl^.,' 
having kindly and generously consented, notice is hereby given 
to all persons on board this steamship, that, in compliance 
with the proclamation of his Excellency Chester A. Arthlti, 
President of the United States of America, dated the twenty- 
second day of Sej)tember, A.D. 1881, and also in conformity 
to the known wishes of a very large number of passengers 
now on shipboard, INIemorial Services will be held at two 
o'clock in the afternoon of to-day in the main saloon of the 
' ScYTHiA,' in honor and to the memory of James A. Garfield, 



late President of said United States, who, after a long, painful, 
and heroic struggle for health and for life, died in the seventh 
month of the lirst year of his presidential term of a fatal 
wound received at the hands of an assassin in the capital of 
his country on the moi'ning of the second day of July, A.D. 
1881. 

" All persons are invited to be present on the occasion here- 
inbefore stated, and to take part in such proceedings as shall 
then and there be deemed proper while a great nation is in 
mourning. ' ' 

At the appointed hour, and amid the deepest 
silence, the Rev. John P. Newman, D.D., LL.D., of 
New York, said, — 

As this day has been designated by President 
Arthur to be observed with fitting rehgious and 
civic services expressive of our great loss in the sad 
death of Geti. James A. Garfield, it is eminently 
proper that we should gather here in mid-ocean, 
and unite with our countrymen at home and in all 
lands in paying a tribute of respect to the memory 
of the illustrious dead, and in offering our prayers to 
Almighty God for the bereaved family, and for our 
stricken but still beloved country. I have therefore, 
on the part of your committee, the pleasure and the 
honor to announce as chakman for this memorable 
occasion the Hon. Marcus P. Norton, of New York, 
who will now take the chair. 

The impressive services were commenced with the 
well-known hymn, — 



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"NEARER, MY GOD, TO THEE." 

" Nearer, my God, to thee. 

Nearer to thee ! 
E'en though it be a cross 

That raiseth me ; 
Still, all my song shall be, — 
Nearer, my God, to thee, 

Nearer to thee ! 

" Though, like the wanderer, 

The sun gone down, 
Darkness be over me, 

My rest a stone ; 
Yet in my dreams I'd be 
Nearer, my God, to thee, 

Nearer to thee ! 

" There let the way appear 

Steps unto heaven ; 
All that thou seudest me 

In mercy given ; 
Angels to beckon me 
Nearer, my God, to thee. 

Nearer to thee ! 

" Then with my waking thoughts, 
Bright with thy praise. 
Out of my stony griefs 

Bethel I'll raise ; 
So by my woes to be 
Nearer, my God, to thee, 
Nearer to thee ! " 



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Mrs. Bolton conducted the singing of this hymn, 
and played the Harmonium in a very effective and 
solemn manner. 

An impressive and touching prayer was then 
offered by the E.ev. James M. King, D.D., of Xew 
York. 

Then came the addresses of the following-named 
gentlemen in the succession or order stated : to tvit, — 

1. Judge Marcus P. Norton, of New York, N.Y. 

2. Judge Charles A. Peabody, of New York, N.Y. 

3. BisJiojy H. N. McTyeire, of Nashville, Tenn. 

4. Judge John L. Rose, Little Rock, Ark. 

5. Judge E. H. East, of Nashville, Tenn. 

6. Bev. Father M. I. Masterson, of Peabody, Mass. 

7. Hon. Agustus Belmont, of New York, N.Y. 

8. Resolutions offered l)y Gen. Cyrus Bussey, President of 
Board of Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans, La. 

9. Resolutions offered by Gen. Bussey, seconded by Hon. 
F. A. Ward, of Brooklyn, N.Y. 

10. Gen. Cyrus Bussey's Address in support of the resolu- 
tions offered by him. 

11. Atldress by Hon. F. A. Ward, of Brooklyn, N.Y., 
upon seconding the resolutions offered by Gen. Bussey. 

12. Singing of the hymn, " My couutr}^ 'tis of thee," etc. 

13. A motion by Bev. Dr. John P. Newman for adjourn- 
ment. 

14. Announcement by the Chairman that the resolution for 
adjournment had been agreed to. 

15. Adjournment sine die. 



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A RECORD IN BRIEF OF GENERAL JAMES A. GAR- 
FIELD,— A CONVENIENT SUMMARY. 

At 14 he was at work at a carpenter's bench. 

At 16 he was a boatman on the Ohio canal. 

At 18 he was studying in the Chester (Ohio) Seminary. 

At 21 he was teaching in one of Ohio's common schools, 
pushing forward with his own studies at the same time. 

At 23 he entered Williams College. 

At 26 he graduated from Williams with the highest honors 
of his class. 

At 27 he was tutor at Hiram College, Ohio. 

At 28 he was principal of Hiram College. 

At 29 he was a member of the Ohio Senate, — the youngest 
member of that body. 

At 30 he was Colonel of the 42d Ohio Regiment. 

At 31 he was placed in command of a brigade, routed the 
Confederates under Humphrey Marshall, helped Gen. Buell iu 
his fight at Pittsburg Landing, plaj^ed a prominent part in the 
siege of Corinth and in the important movements along the 
Memphis and Charleston Railroad. 

At 32 he was appointed chief of staff of the Army of the 
Cumberland, participated in the campaign iu Middle Tennessee 
and in the notable battle of Chickamauga, and was promoted 
to the rank of Major-General for gallant conduct and valuable 
services upon the battle-field. 

At 33 he was in Congress, the successor of Joshua R. Gid- 
dings deceased. 

At 48, having been continued in Congress since he was 33, 
a period of about eighteen years, he was elected to the United 
States Senate. 

At 49 he was nominated for the Presidency of the United 



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States by the National Convention of the Republican partj', 
held at the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois, in the 
summer of 1880. 

At 50 he was elected President, and inaugurated at the city 
of "Washington at 12 o'clock noon of the fourth day of March, 
1881 ; and July 2, 1881, was shot by Guiteau, in the "Balti- 
more and Potomac Railroad Depot," in the city of "Washington, 
— the Capital, — who inflicted a dangerous wound, whicli, 
after great suffering, proved to be a fatal one. 

Sept. 19, 1881, President Gakfield died at Elberok, Long 
Branch, State of New Jersey, of the fatal wound received 
from the assassin Guiteau' s pistol. 

Sejyt. 20, 1881, the deceased President was removed fi-om 
Elberon to the Rotunda in the Capitol at "Washington. 

Sept. 23, 1881, his remains were removed from "Washington 
to the city of Cleveland, Ohio, preparatory for burial services. 

Sept. 26, 1881, Burial Sekvices were held at Cleveland, 
Ohio, near Mentor, his rural home ; and on the same day the 
dead President was committed to a vault in Lake "\'iew 
Cemetery, near by the city of Cleveland. 



ADDRESS 



HON. MARCUS P. NOETON. 

OFFICE ADDRESS: 

Nos. G AND 7 BowDoiN Square, 

BOSTON, MASS. 

CHAIRMAN UPON THE OCCASION OF "ISIEMORIAL SERVICES," 

HELD AT SEA, ON THE CUNARD STEAMSHIP 

"SCYTHIA," SEPTEMBER 26, 1881, 

IN HONOR OF 

JAMES ABEAM GAEFIELD, 

Efjt Etonxtut!) grtaiDtnt of tftc anittO StatM. 



ADDRESS. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — Called as I have been 
by your politeness and kindness to preside over your 
deliberations on this sad occasion, I have to thank 
you, and shall hope at least to meet your wishes in 
conducting your proceedings, and in executing the 
duties you have assigned to me at this time upon 
this beautiful steamship making her voyage so well 
and successfully over the great and troubled deep 
from England to America. 

The eyes of the great Republic and those of eveiy 
civilized nation upon the earth are to-day turned 
towards the city of Cleveland, in Ohio, where the 
solemn and impressive services of the Church are 
being pronounced over all that remains on the earth 
of Gen. James A. Garfield, the twentieth President 
of the United States. 

Born in the humble walks of life — by a praise- 
worthy ambition, backed by an energetic industry ; by 
sound common-sense, and by honesty and uprightness 
in his life and in his manner of living — he obtained 

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a thorough education ; became master of the sciences 
and of tlie hmguages ; well read in the history of the 
■\voiid, and, forcing his way onward in life's great 
highway, he surmounted all obstacles before him (and 
they were many), and came to the head and full 
command of one of the divisions of the armies of the 
Repubhc he loved so well, bearing the emblems and 
havmg the authority of a major-general in the ser- 
vice of the United States, by vu'tue of a commission 
issued by the "War Department and signed by the 
immortal Lincoln. Still onward and onward he 
made his course in life's toilsome way ; and while he 
held the great commission of a major-general, his 
constituency elected him to the Congress of the 
United States by large and overwhelming majorities ; 
and while the nation and the union of States were 
still in imminent danger, in the midst of a great, 
aye, the most gigantic, civil war ever upon the 
earth, — a war largely demanding the sacrifice of 
life and of property, and requiring unexampled 
expenditures of the people's money to save that 
Union, the Ilcpublic, and the Constitution from the 
hands of disunion and rebellion, — he entered the 
House of Representatives of the American Congress, 
and there, through a succession of elections by the 
people of his native State, for eighteen years faith- 
fully and fearlessly defended the right ; aye, in those 



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years he gallantly and patriotically defended his im- 
perilled country, her flag, and her Constitution, both 
in war and in peace, and did much to preserve the 
integrity and to maintain the prosperity, and to 
advance the glory of the arms of the United States 
of America as one undivided and inseparable union 
of States. 

While in Congress he waS ever and firmly on the 
side of the largest liberty. He was true to his 
country, to its flag, and to its government. So, also, 
he was faithful and true to the people, whether rich 
or poor, and he always gave a helping hand to those 
struggling to obtain their rights. So much was he 
loved and admired by those with whom he associated 
in Congress, that he soon became a distinguished 
leader in his party there, which he maintained invio- 
late throug^i those long years of anxious and trouble- 
some times, until from the House of Representatives 
he went to the United States Senate, by a very 
decided majority-vote of the Legislature of Ohio, his 
native State. 

While he was Ohio's chosen Senator in the na- 
tion's great Legislature, he was nominated by his 
party at Chicago, in 1880, for the Presidential office, 
and being in November of that year triumphantly 
elected by the people, he was subsequently sworn 
into that high office ; and thereupon, at twelve o'clock, 



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noon, on the fourth day of March, 18S1, at the Capi- 
tal of a great and prosperous nation, he became the 
twentieth President of the United States of America, 
amid the ringing of bells, the firing of cannon, and 
the exulting joy and universal thanksgivings of the 
American people. 

He commenced his administration in the midst of 
very bright, favorable, and most beautiful auspices. 
Peace prevailed in each and all of the States. 
The Union had been permanently re-established. 
The Great Eepublic was resting on solid rock. The 
American charter of human liberty — the Consti- 
tution — had been enlarged and sustained. The 
people in every part of our country were pursuing 
peaceful ways. Lasting prosperity was spread out 
before them on every hand. Men of all political 
parties, of all church creeds, of professional life, of 
mechanical, of commercial, and of agricultiu*al pur- 
suits, seemed to vie with each other, and to be well 
pleased with home, and satisfied with their country 
and its government. The great nation stood forth 
in all her beauty, in her grandeur, and in her mighty 
power. From every mountain top, from every hill- 
side, and from every valley there went up to heaven 
— to God — one grand and universal song of joy 
and gladness, in that a new era of peace, of purity, 
and of prosperity, in and for the whole country. North 



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and South, East and West, had been thus so well 
inaugurated, and the people evenwhere in all the 
States of the American Republic rejoiced, and hap- 
pily exclaimed — Ames ! 

He had not gone far in the presidential office to 
which he had thus been elected and inaugurated and 
commissioned to fill for four years by the people, 
when lo ! on one beautiful moiTiing, — the closing 
day of the week, — when on his way in a peaceful, 
lawful, and rightful manner to pay a visit of love 
and loyal devotion to his excellent and noble wife, 
— who but a few short days before had arisen from 
a Ions: and dansrerous illness at the executive man- 
sion. and had gone to obtain renewed health and 
strength from the sea-au- at Long Branch, — he, the 
lawful and exalted President of a great, a peaceful, 
and yet powerful nation, was shot down in blood 
and fatal wound by a cowardly assassin, at a railway- 
station in the capital of his countiy, and near unto 
the very shadow of the executive mansion he had 
but a few moments before left so full of hope, of 
happiness, and glowing health. 

For nearly three months of intense pain and agony 
of suflfering, — and ^vith the aid of the veiy best of 
physicians and surgeons that could be produced in 
the United States, — he manfully, patiently, and most 
bravely struggled against a fatal wound for recovery 



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and for life. But it was not in the power of those 
learned and emmcnt physicians, aided as they were 
at all times by the devotion, the immediate pres- 
ence, and the constant care of his brave and ever- 
faithful wife, — his true — his heroic wdfe. For at 
last, when believing him to be somewhat impro^-ing, 
and all had gone to a night's repose — doctors, wife, 
and all — save his trusted and faithful friend-attend- 
ants, there, in the silent watches of that night, he 
suddenly awoke from that which had been pro- 
nounced by attendants and doctors to be a quiet 
sleep, and reaching forth his weak and trembling 
hand, made his last audible prayer upon the earth, 
and it was, "Oh, this is terrible pain ! Sicaim, can 
you not do something for me ? Oh, Swaim ! " With 
this, his agonizing prayer, just spoken by him, he 
came to the margin of the narrow river, and, cross 
ing over, completed the journey of life. In the still 
and solemn hours of the night he parted from wife 
and then- loved children ; from his aged mother, 
whom he saluted with an affectionate kiss at his 
inauguration ; from everybody, aye, from earth it- 
self, he took an untimely departing ; and paying a 
long farewell to all — and to life upon the earth — 
vacated the presidential chair. Yes, in those silent 
hours of that ever-to-bc-remembered night he quietly 
drew about himself the drapery of his couch, and, 



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without uttering another word after his fervent prayer 
for help, passed out and into the dark valley, — into 
the shadow of death ; and very soon thereafter that 
eminent j^hysician and surgeon, Dr. Bliss, announced 
to those there, and to all the world, "It is over. He 
is dead ! " Garfield dead ? Yes ; and oh, how great 
the havoc that death hath wrought ! 

To-day our great nation is in tears at the grave of 
its illustrious dead. She is heavily dressed in mourn- 
ing : for in every State, in every city, village, and 
hamlet of that prosperous country, her beautiful and 
honored flag is flying at half-mast ; while upon all 
her public buildings, and upon all the public build- 
ings of the thirty-seven States and eleven Territories 
of the Union, as well as upon thousands and thou- 
sands of homes m all parts of the land, among the 
rich and among the poor, may at this hour be seen 
the emblems of sorrow, — real, deep sorrow. And 
there, too, may be seen the tears of universal grief 
because their great chief and leader has fallen in 
death by the assassin, and at this time is being con- 
veyed to the narrow subterraneous cavern of earth, to 
dwell among the dead until that day when, with one 
foot upon the sea and the other upon the land, the 
angel of the Lord our God shall proclaim time to be 
no more. 

How grand, how beautiful, and how brave he was 



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on the shores of the great ocean at Long Branch m 
the midst of the most intense suffering and physical 
weakness, when, day after day, his stout and manly 
form wasted away Hkc as the summer's sun and heat 
take away the waters of forest lands, of rivers, and of 
the sea. There he looked out upon the blue waves 
of the mighty deep, with his loving wife still side by 
side with him, while she silently watched the ebbing 
and flowing of the tide of human life. Thus situ- 
ated, he takes her by the hand, and exclaims, " This 
— this is glorious, Crete ! " and then and there this 
great man made another effort for the mastery over 
death and the grave. In that struggle he forgot 
neither the beautiful in nature nor the love of a de- 
voted wife, or of noble children, or of an aged and 
loving mother ; or of home, or of his country and the 
American people, whose great and honored President 
he was. That outlooking of his upon the face of the 
ocean whose waters separate vast empires, kingdoms, 
and republics from our great American Union of Re- 
publican States, and the life-effort of his, and those 
words of good cheer, were almost the last with him ; 
for he was far nearer the dividing line that separates 
earth's flying years from that beautiful land along 
whose shores falls that heavenly light which cometh 
from the sun of an everlasting righteousness. 

From a scene like this we stand back in wonderful 



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amazement. We look again, and this illustrious son 
of America has gone, — gone to his eternal rest, to 
an everiasting peace, and to an heavenly reward ; 
and, after life's fitful dream, he sleeps, and sleeps 
well. The battle of Hfe has been fought, and a 
brilliant and abiding victory won by him. In a calm 
and quiet peace let him rest. 

"Death makes no conquest of the conqueror, 
For now he lives in fame, though not in life." 

To-day his eyes, glazed and dimmed by the hand 
of death, see not the gathering throng of his country- 
men, as in solemn procession they come near the 
family home to aid in the sad business of placing him 
in final rest and in the quiet and undisturbed peace 
of the grave. His ears, heavily laden in the stillness 
of the hour, hear not the foot-falls in the sanctuary 
to-day — in that far away beautiful city in our native 
land — of loving ones, of devoted friends, or of his 
loyal, weeping countrymen. Oh, no ! for it is a sad 
hour to mother, to wife, to children, and to friends ; 
for the last great enemy of man hath come and made 
desolate a beautiful and a happy home, extinguished 
forever a great and brilliant light, and put a great 
nation into mourning. 

The flowers of spring-time and of summer hours 
are passing away, and the frosts of winter are now 



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approaching. These, all these, and all things else of 
earth, shall come and go through the commg cen- 
turies ; but, my countiTmen, and citizens of other 
nations, now and here assembled, I beg to remind 
you that beyond all doubt the name of Garfield will 
ever live and be honored at home and in other lands. 
It is imperishable, because it is immortal. 

Peacefully shall rest this great man, lifted as he 
was from an humble station in life to the very high- 
est and most exalted in the gift of a great and gen- 
erous people ; and from the Xorth, from the South, 
from the East, and from the West, through all time, 
shall come those of our countrymen to place flowers 
around and upon his grave ; and there — in grateful 
recollection of his grand and beautiful home-life, of 
his manly virtues, of his loyal devotion to his coun- 
try, of his generous care for the poor and those strug- 
sYmix for their natural and their lawful rights, and 
for his every good quality of head and lieart — pay 
tribute to his memory, while unbidden and almost 
unconsciously shall fall burning tears of attachment, 
of admii-ation, and of love. Aye, the Union, the 
country, and its government he so much loved and so 
well served ; which he so greatly honored, and in 
whose best interests he gave up his life, shall, at a 
time not far away, erect a monument to his mem- 
ory more lasting and enduring than brass, to mark 



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the place where sleeps in death the second martyred 
President of the United States of America. 

His features shall be chiselled in marble, they 
shall be cast in bronze, and delineated upon the can- 
vas. In the public parks and gardens of the nation ; 
in her chosen halls and in her libraries, the marble, 
the bronze, and the well-made paintmg, — showing 
the face and the form of this great scholar, general, 
representative, senator, president, and statesman, and, 
above all, an honest man ; aye, higher still, a Chris- 
tian gentleman, — shall be placed by a loving and 
generous people ; so that, all those who shall come 
in the long succession of generations yet to be may 
see thus represented he whom the historian then 
shall have assigned one of the best and brightest 
pages in history, close by those occupied by Wash- 
ington, by the illustrious Lincoln, by Grant, — the 
greatest general of any time or country, — and also 
close to those of other great and noble men who, in 
their time, largely contributed to make the grand 
and beautiful history of the American Republic, and 
to perpetuate the union of the States, inseparable, 
indivisible, — one grand, glorious, and united whole 
for all the centuries yet to come. 

Americans ! our country is this day in tears ; she 
is sadly burdened with a great sorrow, and deeply 
stricken with an unwelcome grief. In that great 



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country — extending from ocean to ocean, over a dis- 
tance of about tlu-ee thousand six hundred miles 
from east to west, and of more than two thousand 
mdes from the Canadian Dominion, on the north, 
and the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican Republic, 
on the south — thousands and thousands of bells are 
symbolizing the sorrow and the grief of the people ; 
and mourning representations are everywhere to be 
seen, because of this great, this sad, event, whereby 
the President sees, hears, and speaks never again. 

But Garfield, though dead, yet he lives, and will 
ever live in the hearts and memory of the people, — 
of all the people of the great Republic, now fh-mly 
and forever re-united and sent onward in her great 
mission, to be the light, the admiration, and the 
guiding-star of the nations, kingdoms, and empires 
of the world. Heaven bless to-day, and ever, oiu- 
sorro\\'ing, weeping country. 

Americans ! how grand, how beautiful and heart- 
reaching, has the Queen of England conducted her- 
self, m her personal capacity as well as that of the 
sovereign ruler of a great and truly noble people, 
towards the wife, the children, and family of our 
now death-stricken chief, and also towards our coun- 
try in its entirety, and the people of the United 
States of America. So, too, has England — indus- 
trious in mechanical, agricultural, commercial, and 



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other pursuits ; wealthy and powerful and royal — 
been very kmd and full of sympathy towards the 
great Hepublic and the grief-stricken family of the 
dead President. By these acts — gracious and kind 
as they are — England has bound herself a thousand 
times more closely to the American people ; and her 
exalted and high-minded Queen — already very high- 
ly esteemed by our countrymen in every part of the 
Union — has brought herself and her people more 
closely to our hearts, and to our nation's admu-ation 
and love. Thus has she honored herself, her royal 
family, her government, and all her people, and for- 
ever made for herself and for them a place in the 
American heart and among the American people. 
Let us never forget this noble Queen, this wise, this 
dignified and beloved ruler, nor that land and great 
people she governs and loves so well. 

But though our great President has fallen by the 
assassin's blow, and passed forever beyond our sight 
into the silent chambers of the grave, his name shall 
be embalmed in American hearts ; it shall stand in 
full view in characters of living light in the gratitude 
of a wonderful people and nation ; and it shall ever 
have an abiding-place in the history of these days 
and times, and in the history of the world, as well as 
in marble, in bronze, and on the canvas, along with 
those of our Washington, of Lincoln, of Grant, and 



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other Americans who — by acts of wisdom, of love, 
of truth, and of patriotism — have challenged the 
admu-ation of the world in making their country 
great and grand before all nations and rulers, and in 
securing the liberty, the prosperity, the happiness, 
and the peace of their countrymen for the present 
and for all the years that the future shall brinsr. 

General Garfield was great in life ; he was patient 
and uncomplaining in the midst of the most intense 
suffering in mind and in body ; but still more great, 
patient, and grand in death. From the earth he 
came, and to the earth he this day is returned ; while 
the ever lining life which he had, is this hour, we 
hope and trust, safely housed in that house having 
many mansions, not made with hands, but eternal in 
the heavens, whose maker and builder is Christ our 
Saviour, — " our elder Brother." 

Though his death fills the heart of our nation 
with sorrow and deep grief; yet it and the people 
he loved and served so well, will no doubt, advance 
in grandeur and in greatness through his seemingly 
untimely death. How or wherein is not for me on 
this occasion to discuss. Hereafter it will appear to 
you. Of the politics of our country I will not this 
day speak to you. It were not just or proper that I 
should ; but at the open grave of the illustrious 
Garfield, with you this day I stand as a mourner, and 



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my tears flow and mingle with yours, and with those 
of our countrymen. 

To establish his claim to superior abilities needs 
no eulogium from us ; to render his name immortal, 
no monument that man can rear. The works of his 
public and of his private life praise him, and will 
perpetuate his fame and his memory while the pres- 
ent is ever passing and future years come and go. 

Again the great lesson is repeated, and we are at 
this hour impressed that superior talents, extensive 
usefulness, great honors, or rank, or exalted station 
cannot stay the approach of death — for we do know 
that Garfield hath fallen in the battle of life at the 
head of the Great Republic, the leader and ruler of 
a nation and people, respected, loved, and honored by 
all civilized nations and peoples in the Old World 
as well as in the New, and that this day all of him 
underneath the arch-dome of the heavens above us 
that is earthy wiU be committed to the earth, and 
there to have — 

"The icy worm around him steal, 

"Without the power to scare away 

The cold consumer of his clay." 

His sad, very sad, death has a lesson for all. His 
virtues and talents ; his energy and perseverance ; 
his love of home and of country, and his every manly 
quality of head and heart are this day recommended 



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to be imitated by us, — by Americans and Europeans 
everjivhere, as well as by everybody the world over, 
by the radiance reflected from his tomb. 

That he had no faults is not pretended ; for had 
he been without these in such a life as is this mortal, 
earthly life of oui's, then he would not have been 
man. His failings will, they must, be forgotten, and 
his virtues and good examples be indelibly written 
on the tablet of memory. 

"Z)e mortuis nil nisi bomun" 

as well as 

" De mortuis nil nisi verum.^' 

Brief, indeed, is the time since General Garfield 
stood before his loyal countrymen, holding, in official 
place, their highest trust, and enjoying their unlim- 
ited confidence, honored and admired by them. But 
how is it this day ? Then he was like 

" Some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, 
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, 
Though around its breast the rolling clouds are spread, 
Eternal sunshine settles on its head." 

But to-day the ci\'ilized nations of the earth, and 
the people of all climes, as well as we who are here 
assembled, are admonished that, after all, earth is not 
our home ; that " earth's stormy nights will soon be 
over " with all now living, and that it is not " all of 



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life to live, or of death to die." The great destroyer 
comes in God's own appointed time and manner, and 
leaves no palace, no home, and no place untouched. 
The rich and the poor, the educated and the unedu- 
cated, those in freedom's au* and those enslaved ; 
those in prison and those out of prison, and those of 
exalted rank as well as those of lower degree, — all, 
all wither and perish when the cold night of death 
cometh. And so it was with the great President 
now deceased, whose name and memory we have 
come hither this day to respect and to honor in the 
manner so beautifully and touchingly suggested and 
recommended by the Proclamation of President Ar- 
thur, as best we may, although in mid-ocean we are 
homeward bound upon the waters of the mighty 
deep ; for the dark night of death came about him 
with its chilling frosts, and they touched him, and he 
faded, withered, and fell, as fade, wither, and fall 
autumn leaves ; but, though he has thus gone from 
earth away, his name and his memory perish not, for 

" Earth's transitory things decay ; 
Its pomps, its pleasures pass away ; 
But the sweet memory of the good 
Survives in the vicissitude. 

"As, in the heavens, the urns divine 
Of golden light forever shine ; 
Though clouds ma}' darken, storms may rage, 
They still shine on from age to age ; 



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" So, through the ocean-tide of years, 
The memorj^ of the just appears ; 
So, through the tempest and the gloom, 
The good man's virtues Hght the tomb." 

The mantle tliut he cast off at the gates of death 
has by our Constitution and laws fallen upon another. 
And to-day — while the illustrious dead chief is 
being borne away to the silent home of the dead, and 
buried from the sight of his loved ones ; from friends 
and from his countrymen — America has a rightful 
and lawful President, quietly and peacefully perform- 
ing the functions of that high, dignified, and truly 
responsible office. 

That mantle could not have fallen upon a nohlei' 
and truer man than General Chester A. Arthur. He 
is a good lawyer, holding high position, and of superior 
rank or order in his profession. He is a citizen of 
unclouded reputation, bearing before him an honest 
Ufc and goodly living. He is well learned in his 
]")rofession, is finely educated, and is an accomplished 
gentleman. He is well informed in the politics of 
our country, and familiar with official life and its 
burdensome duties. All in all, he is a firm, reliable, 
and upright citizen of our Republic now in tears at 
the grave of General James A. Garfield, who died 
at the post of duty, the twentieth President of the 
United States of America. 



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Once before — and not many years ago — our 
country was called to a similar sorrow, when the 
illustrious Lincoln, chief magistrate of the Republic, 
gave up his life by an assassin while taking rest from 
the cares and excitement of those perilous, stormy, 
and most unhappy times at a public ajid a respecta- 
ble place of amusement at the capital of the nation. 
The Republic was then passing through the fire, and 
smoke, and blood of the greatest of all wars known in 
the history of the world. Then there was unrest in 
every part of our country. The fire and smoke of 
fierce battle were seen here and there. The rattle of 
musketry and clash of arms were heard in all direc- 
tions. Not so when President Garfield fell at the 
hands of another assassin ; for the great civil strife 
had passed into history, and peace prevailed in every 
part of the country. 

General Arthur has succeeded to the office of 
President in a constitutional manner ; and he is 
therefore the twentij-first President of the United 
States. He will in all things faithfully and honestly 
administer the aff"airs of the government and of our 
country. He will labor to perpetuate the union of 
the States, to make our country prosperous, and to 
lead the people of the whole country in peaceful 
ways and honorable pursuits. His address at the 
taking of the oath prescribed by our Constitution, 



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though hricf, is full of sound common-sense, and of 
wisdom, and of patriotism. Those words came from 
an honest heart. They crvnnot fail to satisfy every- 
body as to his qualifications and fitness to fill this 
great office, and to hold sacred all important trusts 
now devolved upon him by the operation of the laws 
of our country. In his administration the country 
will advance in business, commercial, and domestic 
affak's, as well as in foreign relations ; and her re- 
sources will continue to be successfully developed for 
the good of the nation and of the people. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, — I shall detain you only 
a few moments more. There arc several promi- 
nent gentlemen here present from various parts of 
our beloved country, w^hose names have been handed 
to me by the Committee, and whom I shall request 
to address you upon this occasion. In closing this 
address I beg to remark that funeral rites are useless 
to the dead. To the living, however, they are useful. 
P)y them we yield to our sense of justice, and will- 
ingly pay to the dead that tribute of respect which 
the jealousies of the human heart cause men, often- 
times, to withhold from the living. At the grave it 
is that distinguished talents and virtues, viewed apart 
from the frailties of human life, beam with truthful 
radiance and demand a holy emulation ; and there it 
is that a voice seems to come from that far away 



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spirit-realm, and, fulling npon onr cars, admonishes 
us that " wc too are mortal," and bids us to look at 
the manly form lying in the icy embrace of death ; 
and, sccmg the open grave soon to receive the great 
dead, we let the tender part of nature manifest its 
supremacy and exert its refining power, as we reach 
forth the hand of sympathy, and " witness the last 
scene in the drama of our own earthly life." 

Let us this day take courage, sustain the new 
President, have full faith and a well-grounded hope, 
and be of good cheer, although we weep at the grave 
of our martyred Garfield. God in heaven will bless 
us and our nation, and through these tears and these 
great sorrows lead us onward to a greater greatness, 
and to a nobler and an ever-enduring destiny. 

And now. King Eternal : 

" We need Thee every hour, 
Most gracious Lord ; 
No tender voice like Thine, 
Can peace afford." 

And my country 

" Needs Thee every hour ; 
Stay Thou near by ; 
Temptations lose their power 
When Thou art nigh." 



ADDRESS 

OF 

HONOEABLE CHARLES A. PEABODY. 

OFFICE ADDRESS: 

No. 110 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 



ADDRESS. 



Judge Peabody, being called on by the President 
of the meeting, responded as follows : — 

Mr. Chairman, — I thank you for the privilege 
of speaking on this occasion ; for, while in common 
with many others I might, if left to myself, prefer 
to indulge the melancholy reflections of the occasion 
in silence and solitude ; yet, as we are to commune 
socially, and speaking our own sadness is to be the 
order of the meeting, I would not like to be silent 
and omit to bear testimony to the respect and affec- 
tion I felt for our late President while living, or the 
sorrow I feel that he is dead. 

The magnitude of the loss and misfortune to our 
bereaved country might well make us wish to indulge 
our feelings in silence. The nation is plunged into 
the deepest mourning by an event of the most pain- 
ful character in itself, occurring from a cause which 
enhances greatly the affliction it brings. The death 
of our chief magistrate at any time would be griev- 
ous, even when occurrins^ in the course of nature, 



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and without ciixunistances of aggi'avation, and this 
would be the case in regard to the person who might 
for the time be invested with the powers and honors 
of the office, even when that person had no special 
claims to our regard otherwise ; but the pangs are 
greatly increased when the event is the result of 
crime, and the subject of such a fate possesses the 
peculiar claims to our esteem and affection which 
were found in the character of General Gai-field. 

On such an occasion we are not wont to over- 
look personal traits of character in contemplating 
his official eminence and dignity, and forget the 
man in considering the great chief magistrate. We 
dwell with melancholy interest on his private vir- 
tues, and grieve for him in view of them as if he 
were dependent on them alone for our mterest in 
him ; and when — in addition to the loss of the 
chief magistrate, eminent and great in that respect 
and in his private character, in his purposes as well 
as his achievements — we recall the base means by 
which he is taken from us, we shrmk from the con- 
templation and arc overwhelmed. 

Our bereaved country, bleeding at every pore, 
observes this as a day of mourning and humiliation ; 
and we do well to note the fact, even at this dis- 
tance on the ocean, and to unite with countrymen 
at home and wherever else they may be in appro- 



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priate devotions. The life of the deceased, prior 
to the assault — wonderful in what he had accom- 
plished, in the obstacles he had overcome, and in 
the absence of all favoring means and circumstances 
except his own inborn strength of purpose and 
force of character — so pleasantly summarized and 
presented to us by you, su', on consenting to pre- 
side at this meeting, would have attracted the at- 
tention of all appreciative persons ; and this, crowned 
with an exhibition of the most heroic qualities under 
trials never surpassed in magnitude, might well 
have been expected to attract attention beyond the 
borders of his own broad country. 

But the interest the event has occasioned has 
greatly exceeded what could have been expected in 
foreign countries, and, as has been said, apparently 
without exaggeration, has no parallel in the history 
of the world. The increase in facilities for commu- 
nication between different and distant countries of 
the world may be supposed in some measure to ac- 
count for this, and it does in some measure, no 
doubt ; but it falls greatly short of doing so in full. 
It was the intrinsic qualities of character exhibited by 
deceased from early childhood : in orphanage bravely 
battling with adversity to support himself (almost an 
infant) and aid his afflicted, widowed mother in a 
struggle for life in a western wilderness ; and rising, 



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not as by a flight or a fortunate leap, but by care- 
fully measured and studied legitimate gradations, to 
the position in which he died at the age of fifty 
years, the chief governmental magistrate of a nation 
of fifty millions of people, than whicli there is no 
higher official position known to man on this earth, — 
it was this most remarkable life, crowned by months 
of suffermg, with heroic fortitude perhaps equally re- 
markable, that has attracted the interest, sympathy, 
and affection of the human family throughout, and 
even beyond, the borders of Christian civilization, and 
has given to our beloved President a breadth and 
strength of admhation seldom enjoyed by man. 

It may not be amiss to allude for a moment to 
the means by which our affliction has been brought 
about ; and turning our eyes in that du-ection we 
see that, flagrant and hideous as the act seems, it 
lacks some circumstances of aggravation which 
might have attended it, and has less enormity than 
we might at first glance have supposed. The mis- 
erable creature who caused the evil acted alone, 
without support from or concert with any one else. 
Of this there seems to be no doubt. He alone con- 
ceived the purpose and performed the act ; and in 
it he had no " aid " or " comfort," and no encourage- 
ment even, from any other person ; so that the guilt 
extends to no one else, but rests on him alone. It 
might have been worse, therefore, in this respect. 



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The act, it is plain, has no poHtical significance, 
and this is a fact of no small importance in estimating 
the weight of the blow by which we are smitten. I 
repeat, that the crime is the act of one man, and he 
obscure and unknown, for any other cause good or 
bad, and has no color of political significance. I need 
not say this at home, or even here in addressing 
Americans ; for we know that there are no organiza- 
tions or bodies of men among us whose energies could 
be dhected to such a purpose ; and there is not the 
slightest belief or pretence that any were concerned 
in this tragedy. In Europe, whence we are now on 
our way home, in some countries, combinations and 
conspu'acies against the lives of sovereigns and pubhc 
men of great eminence do occur ; and the fact is so 
often exhibited to the public mind that the first im- 
pression there among persons familiar with those 
facts might be that this act was the result of concert 
among malcontents or ill-disposed factions in the 
country where it occurred. AVe know well that there 
was nothing of the kind in the case, and that the 
worthless Guiteau, now languishing in prison, was 
the sole author of the idea and of the act, without 
the aid, support, countenance, sympathy, or (as far as 
known) approbation of any other human being. 

Thus much on the supposition that the actor is in a 
state of mental sanity which makes him responsible 



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for his conduct. "What may be thought of the meas- 
ure of his guilt is of very httle importance ; and we 
might, perhaps, well dispense with all consideration 
of the subject here. That he was not wholly of sound 
mind all would seem to agree; and there can be little 
doubt of the fact. "Whetlicr his mental status was 
sufficient to make him responsible in law for his con- 
duct will be determined by the appropriate tribunal. 
It is of little importance to us, in this connection, on 
which side of the line marking the boundary between 
responsibility and m-esponsibility for acts usually 
criminal his place may be assigned him. One 
wicked or insane man more or less, in our country, 
is a matter of little importance to the rest of the fifty 
millions peopling our shores. 

However we may view some of the circumstances 
attending this sad event, and however in their nature 
tending to aggravate or diminish the affliction to our 
beloved country, one source remains to us from which 
we certainly may derive consolation : I allude to the 
treatment we have received from other nations, their 
sovereigns, and citizens occupying the highest politi- 
cal and social positions. From them we have received 
the kindest possible treatment, and the most marked 
consideration ; and we arc at liberty to draw from 
this fact all the consolation it is intended or calculated 
to afford. Nothing could surpass in kindness the 



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sympathy and affections expressed for onr country, our 
President, and his sorrowing wife and family ; and 
this, too, by all nations with whom we have connec- 
tion or intercourse. Nothing could tend more directly 
to soothe our wounded feelings and mitigate our sor- 
row than to know that they are appreciated, and 
that we have the sympathy of those around us in the 
world whose kindly interest and respect we esteem. 
From them, and from England especially — to whom 
more than to any other nation we look, if not as a 
parent, at least as having a common lineage, mission, 
and destiny — we have received most gratifying as- 
surances of sympathy and kmdness in our affliction. 
Our debt of affection and gratitude let us be prompt 
to acknowledge, even in our deepest grief. I am sure 
we have already in our hearts begun to pay it. May 
she never be in circumstances to receive payment in 
kind. In nothing does it touch our hearts so ten- 
derly, perhaps, as in its bestowal on the heart-stricken 
widow now surviving to be the subject of the prayers 
and benedictions of all good persons. 



ADDRESS 



EEVEREND H. N. McTYEIEE, 



OF NASHVILLE, TENN., 



Bisljop of tijc fHctljotitst lEpiscopal dTj^urcf) Soutfj. 



ADDRESS. 



Bishop McTvErRK. being called for by the Chair- 
man, said : — 

Mr. Chairman. — There is sorrow on the sea. It 
is meet and proper that we be joined in spirit with 
our fellow-citizens on the land who are to-day burst- 
ing our late President. I was not of those who elect- 
ed 'Mv. Gai-field. l;orn and brouirht up in the South, 
and dwelling among mine own people, I felt, with 
them, a sense of defeat when the choice of the 
American voters fell on him. And yet I bear testi- 
mony to this fact : so many and so great were the 
personal excellences of the successful candidate, they 
were readily reconciled to political defeat. The can- 
vass over, and its result ascertained, they said, - This 
man will not suffer the Kepublic to be harmed. 
There is security in his elevation, and breadth and 
uprightness for all. He will do us good and not 
evil." And the opening of his career was justif\"ing 
these hopes, when suddenly and wickedly, and cruelly 
he was struck down. 

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Often were congratulations exchanged, that in Mr. 
Garfield our young men had an example that must 
be very beneficial ; and the crowning of such a life 
with honor, the highest that the country can bestow, 
gave wholesome emphasis to that example. Sober, 
industrious, frugal, upright ; not ashamed of poverty, 
not shunning toil ; but rising by self-reliant steps to 
the foremost place among men. Here is a lesson ; 
here is encouragement ; here is a vindication of our 
social and civil institutions. 

And though we have lost him, these are blessings 
that cannot be lost to the youth of our land. The 
manner of his life must have an elevating influence 
upon public men. He was not ashamed of his re- 
ligious nor of his political principles. True to both, 
anywhere, everywhere. Even as President of the 
United States — courted, followed, flattered — we find 
him, as aforetime, worshipping in one of the humblest 
conventicles of Washington City ; keeping faith with 
his plain brethren, the Disciples, and with his con- 
science and his God. 

Much prayer has been offered for the wounded 
President. Our own country, from thousands of 
hearts and congregations, has sent up daily petitions 
to heaven. In England and on the Continent, doubt- 
less we were all touched at the feeling shown, and 
the sympathy for our national calamity. Since the 



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extreme illness of the Prince of Wales, years ago, 
Great Britain had not been so stirred. Prayers were 
offered there by sincere souls, and by great assemblies. 
We left the flags in London and Liverpool, on ships 
and public buildings, at half mast. 

What shall we say now '? Shall our great grief be 
deepened by the taunts of infidelity'? Shall it be 
declared that our God heareth not prayer because 
the President is dead, for whose spared life so many 
prayed? Nay, my friends. Verily, our God is a 
prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God. " Ask, 
and it shall be given; seek, and ye shall find; knock, 
and it shall be opened unto you," is still true. God, 
our Heavenly Father, always reserves and exercises 
an all-wise, all-loving, and a parental discretion as to 
the specific manner of granting blessings asked for, 
and of answermg prayers. Were it not so, we, in 
our ignorance, might well be afraid to ask for any 
thing. The privilege of petition might turn out a 
curse if our specific requests were always called down 
on our heads. When we ask for blessing, a blessing 
we have, though, may be, not in the precise form that 
our ignorant and eager desire dictated. Good we 
seek, and good will be found; but God is to determine 
the shape and measure of it. These conditions of 
fervent, effectual prayer remain the same, whether 
one man, or a thousand, or a nation, is bowed in 



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prayer. Human majorities and multitudes cannot 
take away this divine discretion, this fatherly pre- 
rogative, in answering prayer; and we rejoice that it 



IS so. 



All men must die, sooner or later. Prayer cannot 
make any man live forever, and so escape the doom 
which He himself hath fixed who appointed prayer. 
We look to the ends, the uses, the consequences, the 
circumstances of living or dying, at a particular time, 
and ask that a valuable life may be spared, in view of 
these. It may please God to lengthen days ; or who 
can tell if it may not please him to grant the same or 
greater blessings, in some other way than by length- 
ening days 1 

What do we see? The hearts of all Americans 
united about that sick-bed. On the pulse of the 
President our fingers have been for these weary, 
anxious months. Bitterness and strife cease. As 
was said in the opening prayer, " The hearts of our 
people have been knit and woven together." God 
can make the wrath of man to praise him, — out of 
seeming evil, still educing good. The Sovereign of 
the British Empire, — whose queenly wisdom and 
womanly vii'tue make her to be admired and loved 
in all lands, and in none more than in our own, — she 
weeps with the widow of our lamented President, and 
her people mingle their tears with ours. What a 



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thing is this that has come to pass ! President Gar- 
field was in office about six months, and nearly half 
of that time was spent in tragic sufferings and death. 
But the longest administration allowed to any Presi- 
dent would not have produced such results. The 
most brilliant decade of government never approached 
such moral, national, and international achievements. 
Behold, the ministry of innocent, heroic suffering! 
God has not allowed it to be in vain. He has heard 
prayer. Let us sing of mercy and judgment. And 
let us remember, with bowed hearts and thankful, 
that while Mr. Garfield was a statesman and patriot, 
and therefore we had hope in his life, he was also a 
Christian, and we have hope in his death. 



ADDRESS 



HONORABLE U. M. ROSE 



OF LITTLE ROCK, AKK., 



Jutige in tfje State Courts of Slrkansaa. 



ADDRESS. 



Judge KosE, having been called for by the Chair- 
man, said ; — 

Mr. Chairman, — The subject of our great afflic- 
tion is the more gloomy to me from the fact that I 
am not able to see any compensating advantages of 
any great value to flow from the death of the Presi- 
dent. While it may be desirable to take a hopeful 
view of the situation, it is doubtless still better to take 
an accurate view. In the infinite number of conse- 
quences that must flow directly or indirectly from 
every important event, it is always possible to make 
such a selection as will, when separately considered, 
make it appear that the Avorld has been benefited or 
injured, just as we please. Naturally shocked by a 
great crime, the mind seeks relief in some vague 
theory of collateral advantages. In this case I have 
not heard of any benefit that can be regarded as 
of any lasting value. It is creditable to humanity to 
think that the wounding and death of the President 
have called forth such universal expressions of sym- 



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pathy from the \Yhole cmlizcd world; and we who 
have been abroad durmg the summer have all, I 
doubt not, been infinitely touched by the uniform 
warmth and sincerity of the manifestations of sorrow 
on the part of people of alien race and speech, as 
well as by the people of England, in a calamity that 
seemed to be peculiarly our own ; but we all knew 
before that " one touch of nature makes the whole 
world kin." A new example can only give some new 
emphasis to a well-known truism. 

The most desirable of all the advantages that I 
have heard mentioned was, that the death of Mr. 
Garfield would banish or allay all that sectional strife 
which — with sad impeachment of our wisdom — has 
proved so injurious to our country. Figures of speech 
may certainly be indulged when the heart is full of 
moui-ning ; but I am glad to apprehend, as a sober 
reality, that the sectional strife thus to be dispelled 
has already died a natural death, being now only oc- 
casionally galvanized into a semblance of life by the 
appliances of American politicians. To hope that 
these politicians will undergo any thorough reforma- 
tion because of any emotion whatever is to indulge 
in hopes that arc belied by all past experience. It is 
not unjust to suppose that their sorrow, however sin- 
cere, will be tempered or increased by discreet con- 
siderations as to how the event may chance to affect 
then- individual mterests. 



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Confronted by a great misfortune, we are brought 
dii'ectly face to face mth the question of the existence 
of evil in the world in a hard and revolting manner. 
We cannot sec how it is that " an eagle, towering in 
his pride of place," should be " moused at by a hawk, 
and killed." Darker than any question propoimded 
by the sphinx is this problem that defies om* deepest 
scrutiny. Every one must judge of it as he will ; but 
to me it seems to be almost as irreverent to take 
Providence under any apparent patronage as to tax 
eternal justice with blindness or cruelty. 

I should be sorry to think that the deep feeling 
everywhere displayed has been wholly due to the 
illustrious ofiicial position occupied by the deceased. 
As President of the Pepublic, jNIj'. Garfield was en- 
titled to respect ; but " a breath can make them, as 
a breath has made." On a moment's reflection it 
must be ob\dous that Garfield will be remembered 
more as a man than as a President. Having risen 
from the humblest rank of life to the highest, he was 
the fit representative of every class of our people. A 
self-made man, he was of that type that Americans 
most delight to honor. He was far above the average 
of our later Presidents ; their equal in statesmanship, 
their superior in cultivation and scholarship. He had 
laid his hand to the great work of purifying American 
politics and of introducing some rational civil service, 



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and the people had faith in his abihty to work out the 
needed reform. Another may carry on the labor with 
equal intelligence and firmness ; but the indefinable 
and potent spell of individual prestige is gone forever. 
Is it not true that S])arta hath a thousand better 
men than he. The death of a good man in high 
place, competent to perform its duties in a manner 
suitable to theu* dignity and importance, is simply 
irreparable. In spite of all specious pleas, and hopes 
fondly cherished by us all which may prove delusive, 
my best comiction is that we are returning home to 
our country to find it infinitely poorer than it was 
when we left it. 

An ancient philosopher advised that no man should 
be counted happy until after his death. If President 
Garfield did not live long enough for his country, he 
lived long enough for his own fame ; and the tragic 
manner of his death will clothe his life \\'ith a deeper 
and more tender interest. The example of his early 
struggles and later successes will serve to animate 
generous spmts yet unborn, while the uncomplaining 
fortitude of his last long agony, soothed and sustained 
by all that is bright and beautiful in womanly devo- 
tion, will ever remain as a priceless legacy to be cher- 
ished by rich and by poor alike. 



ADDRESS 

OF 

HOKOEABLE EDWARD H. EAST 

OF NASHVILLE, TENN., 

i£i=3ut)S£ in t!)c State Courts of STcnncssee. 



ADDRESS. 



Judge East, being called for by the Chairman, 
said : — 

Mr. ChxURMan, — On the 4th of March, 1881, 
James A. Garfield was inaugurated President of the 
United States. Among the spectators of this august 
scene were some who had a peculiar and personal 
interest in the man and occasion. There was his 
devoted wife, who had journeyed hand in hand ^\dth 
him from obscurity to the proud elevation he that 
day reached. There were his hopeful children, and 
his old mother, who in maternal pride saw her boy 
advanced by his fellow-citizens to be the first citizen 
in a republic distinguished for great men. To her 
this event must have had especial interest, being the 
consummation of her highest hopes, — an ample rec- 
ompense for her life of toil and privation. On the 
2d of July, 1881, President Garfield was shot down 
in the streets of Washington. 

"An eagle, towering in his pride of plaee, 
"Was by a mousing owl hawk'cl at, and killed." 

Go 



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The sorely-wounded man struggled with his mortal 
hurt "Nvith manful courage and Christian patience for 
weary days, weeks, and months, and the pathetic 
combat has been w^atched ^Yith. deepest sympathy by 
the whole ci\ilized world. Emperors, kings, and 
queens, and more than these, the great masses of 
humanity, have hung upon the vicissitudes of the sick 
chamber with keen interest, and alternated with every 
gleam of hope and fear. All is ended now. The 
skill of science, the love of friends, the loyalty of 
people, and the prayers of Christendom have striven 
in vain to preserve a life so precious. 

The civilized world has received the sad news of 
his death with a shock of sorrow. It is due from 
us, who were temporary sojourners in foreign lands 
during these sad days, to bear to our countrymen at 
home the evidences of the deep and broad sympathy 
which we have everywhere witnessed in behalf of our 
deceased President. There was no man or ruler on 
earth on whom envy or hatred had less cause to fix 
a malignant and murderous purpose. It seems, in 
these days, that men of eminence, by whatever offi- 
cial designation they may be called, who attract an 
unusual share of public affection or notice, are open 
to the assaults of those who murder from vanity or 
malice. If we raise up men worthy to represent 
us, may we not expect that these men should also die 



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for us, rather than die in the usual way? Here was 
a man who had lately sheathed the sword of a major- 
general, had for eighteen years been a representative 
in the Congress of the United States, and before he 
had laid down this honor he had been cro'svned with 
the laurels of a senator, and instantly advanced by 
his fellow-citizens to the chief magistracy of the 
nation. Did ever such magnificent prospects lie 
stretched out in front of any man, in ancient or 
modern times ? And surely the prospect must have 
been sweetened by the fact that wife, mother, and 
childi'en were present to participate in and share the 
joys and honors, as they had in other days borne with 
him the burdens. 

" This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, 
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him : 
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; 
And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely 
His greatness is a ripening — nips his root, 
And then he falls." 

It is eminently befitting that we — citizens of the 
Great Republic, whose chief magistrate has thus 
been " taken off," while the hearts of our country- 
men are bowed down in sorrow as they deposit the 
remains of the murdered President in his " narrow 
home " — should commingle our tears and griefs with 



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theii'S, and tender to her who has suffered most the 
consolations of our sympathies. And, above all, the 
American citizen should, in view of the open tomb, 
resolve to free our politics of that party rancor, 
malice, and hatred which breed and generate the vile 
instruments of miu-der and basest crime. 



ADDRESS 

OF 

EEY. FATHER M. J. MASTEESON 

OF PEABODY, MASS., 

Catfjolic Cf)urcfj in ^cafiolig. 



ADDRESS. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and fellow 
American Citizens, — I deem it a duty, to say first 
of all, that I do not intend, as I am not I liope 
expected, to stand here before you to address you in 
any prepared or timely-arranged form of speech. 
I am here in answer to a well-aimed, I am sure, 
and gratefully-received invitation, tendered to me but 
some moments ago, to personally testify that my sor- 
row and sympathies are cordially united with yours 
in this sad crisis of our country's trying affliction. 
I grieve with you for our common loss ; oui' illustri- 
ous chief is departed ; the great American nation is 
deeply filled wdth mourning, and the dear wife and 
fond children of a faithful husband and father are 
now plunged into a most hopeless bereavement. 
And, honored sk, I recall with much pleasure, as a 
Catholic priest, the hving and lively testimony of our 
church's universal and profound sorrow, as evinced 
in her early and continued words of cheer to the 
wounded and dymg chief, and in her maternal strains 



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of tcndcmcss for his sufferings and those of his 
wounded country and family. The CathoUc priests 
and people all over the land prayed as with one 
mighty voice that the distinguished patient might be 
spared; that tranquillity might rule cur beloved 
land, and the sting of death be averted from the 
presidential home. But the tried and brave patriot 
is gone ; the trusted leader of our people has de- 
parted ; he is torn forever from the free land on 
whose eminence he had just been seated ; taken 
away from the glory that but yesterday had so com- 
pletely encu'cled him ; and, worse and worse, dragged 
from the wife and children he so loved, and that so 
loved him m return. Let, then, our united sympathy 
go forth in its most assuaging and hopeful career to 
cheer our country in her present sadness, and to 
quench the consuming anguish, as best we can, of 
poor widowed Mrs. Garfield and her languishing 
household. Our country's constitution, gentlemen, 
was once again shocked by the unhallowed hand of 
the assassin ; but it was, thank God, hardly shaken, 
for it is yet strong and vigorous as before ; and so 
may it ever be a proof against all the future dangers 
of human frailty with which it may from time to 
time have to come in conflict. 



ADDRESS 



GENEEAL CYEUS BUSSEY 



OF NEW ORLEANS, LA., 



Prcsilient of tfje ]Src&)=©rkans Cfjambcr of C!r0mincrce. 



ADDRESS. 



General Bussey, being called upon by the Chair- 
man, said : — 

Mr. Chairman, — We have met this day as coun- 
trymen of a great nation bowed do\vn under the 
pressure of a mighty grief; and there can be no 
doubt that every American regards it a pleasant 
duty to take part in commemorating this sad event. 
The Chairman has referred to that which is tak- 
ing place in our country, and, no doubt, if there 
is one grief more than another it is that we, as 
Americans, are this day prohibited from bemg at 
home with our countrymen, and sharing with them 
the great grief that has overspread the nation. I 
have contemplated for eighty-five days, since the 
news of that great calamity reached Europe, what 
must be the feeling as, day by day and hour by hour, 
the people of our happy, united country have watched 
the bulletins that have emanated from the sick cham- 
ber of our chief magistrate ; and I believe, if it were 
possible to arrive at an expression of opinion, we would 



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find that the whole American heart is, perhaps for 
the first time in the history of the nation, beating as 
one great heart in sympathy over this great calamity 
which has befallen them. A few months ago it was 
my good fortune to be in "Washington, and in the pri- 
vate chamber of the President's mansion, where I saw 
a few of the President's friends one by one come in 
and take him by the hand, — among them Vice-Presi- 
dent Arthur, who went there to pay his respects to 
Gen. and ]\Ii's. Garfield, and to congratulate them on 
their great fortune and prosperity. From that scene, 
so magnificent, my mind naturally went back to the 
time when Garfield was a poor boy, one of the low- 
liest in the land, working at the hardest daily toil to 
earn support for himself and the widowed mother; 
and I could not help thinking that it was by Mr. Gar- 
field's o\vn energy and mdustry, and the practice of 
those great \ii-tues which characterized the best of our 
people, he had brought himself from one gradation to 
another to the proud position of being the head of 
more than fifty millions of people who did him honor 
in electing him to that great ofiice. On my way to 
Europe I again called at the White House, and at that 
time Mrs. Garfield lay upon a bed of languishing, and 
was not expected to live. It was the husband's place 
then to stand at the bedside of his faithful, devoted 
wife ; and he knew how anxiously the American people 



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watched over her sickness, now overshadowed by the 
present calamity. IMi-s. Garfield had barely recovered 
sufficiently to be able to be removed to Long Branch. 
Her suffering and dangerous illness was one of the 
incidents which prepared the public mind for the 
great sympathy which has been manifested for her 
since the occurrence of the tragic event. The Presi- 
dent had removed his wife to Long Branch, and had 
returned to Washington for a day or two, and was on 
his way again to join her when the bullet of the 
assassin felled him ; and for eighty days the prayers of 
the whole world have gone up as one prayer to Al- 
mighty God that he would spare the life of the Presi- 
dent, and give him back to the nation and his loving 
wife, so that he might still be a blessing, and that his 
life might be an example to the people of the earth. 
But God willed it otherwise, and there is doubtless a 
lesson in it all. President Garfield himself believed 
in an overshadowing Providence; and they well re- 
membered, many of them, — in that dark hour when 
Abraham Lincoln was stricken down, and when the 
people of Xew York were gathered in the streets, an 
excited mob, believing that in some way the party 
opposed to the administration was responsible for the 
deed, and seeking some person on whom to wreak 
their vengeance, — it was in such an hour that James 
A. Garfield stepped on to the balcony of a hotel, 



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and called on his countrymen to hear him, and told 
them that God reigned and would A'indicate his law. 
Again, when Gen. Garfield stood in the hurying- 
ground at Arlington, and made the oration at the 
dedication of that great sepulchre, he referred to the 
martyrdom of St. Peter at Rome, and the erection of 
that magnificent temple, St. Peter's, Avhich had at- 
tracted the eyes of two hundred millions of people ; 
he referred to the sacrifice of the humble fisherman 
who laid down his life; and in that, one of the 
grandest orations ever delivered in America, he made 
use of this sentence : — " A noble life, crowned with 
heroic deeds, rises above and outlives the pride and 
pomp of glory of the weightiest empire on the earth." 
Thus recognizing that the life of one man might be- 
come of more importance and more value to the world 
than a whole empire itself. President Garfield's has 
been such a life. When the historian shall write the 
life of that great man, and compile his utterances, it 
will be found that in every public speech there are 
gems of thought that will do honor to the greatest 
minds who have ever lived. The whole of his life has 
been spent in the acquisition of knowledge, and as a 
teacher of men. He has left on record nothing of 
which his family and the nation cannot take pride. 
Education, civilization, and the Christian religion ever 
found in him a faithfiU advocate and friend. 



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I have no donbt that the sickness and death of 
Gen. Gariiekl has had more to do in bringing about 
a unity of fechng among the nations than any event 
which has transphed since the crucifixion of Christ. 
It is impossible to say at present, what will be the 
influence of Gen. Garfield's sickness and death ; but 
we are all well aware that it would have been im- 
possible to have conveyed to the mind of every young 
man in the nation the lesson of Gen. Garfield's death, 
but for the crowning event which has made it so glori- 
ous. Every young man in the nation, no doubt, has 
been stimulated by the fact that it is possible for the 
lowliest man to rise by his own energy to the most 
exalted station; and what woman in the land has 
read of the heroic devotion Mrs. Garfield has dis- 
played in the sick chamber without resolving that in 
future she would become a more devoted wife and 
mother than she has ever been before ^ The aspira- 
tions of the whole world have no doubt been elevated. 
AVhat grander compUment could be paid to a great 
statesman, in a country like America, than is con- 
tained in the announcement which has been made 
that, after twenty-five years of public life, surrounded 
as he has been by corruption, with the opportunity 
of amassmg a large fortune without the knowledge 
of any one, the amount he has left behmd him is 
so small ? The people of the United States have ex- 



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hausted the entire market of every thing that ^^^ll 
exhibit their feeling of grief, and entire streets of the 
great cities are draped in mourning ; not a house 
being without some evidence of the sorrow that is 
felt by the people. The great marts of trade are 
closed; around every hearthstone, and in every tem- 
ple of worship in America and in foreign lands, the 
people are bowed to-day in sorrow. AVitncss the part 
taken in this great sorrow by the people of England, 
from the Queen to the humblest peasant ; and we are 
sure there is not a man among them coming from 
the other side of the Atlantic who, after all the evi- 
dences received from the voice of England, did 
not feel he had come back to the old homestead to 
share the sympathies of the English people in this 
great calamity. The people of Great Britain, I wish 
to say as an American, have stamped themselves as 
the greatest people on the civilized globe. They 
have carried into every land, by their magnificent 
commerce, civilization and Christianity, which has 
blessed the world to a greater degree than the influ- 
ence of any other nation on the earth. It is no 
small matter to receive the sympathy of such a 
people. The Mayor of Liverpool said the other 
day, at the Town-hall, in his eloquent speech, that 
they were there to sympathize with their kinsmen. 
They were kinsmen. That iimcricaiis were English, 



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and he had no doubt that England was American, 
and that from that time forward a new era had 
dawned between the two nations, and that whatever 
in the past had tended to divide and distract them, 
they were from this time forward one great Anglo- 
Saxon people, — one in sentiment and one in mind. 
In conclusion, Mr. President, I beg to present for 
consideration and action, upon this sad and solemn 
occasion, the following resolutions : — 

Resolved^ That fill American citizens now on board tlie steam- 
ship " Scythia" share with their countrjnrieu and with the worhl 
the horror and detestation of the crime which has stricken down 
the President of the United States ; that we cannot adequately 
express the anguish we feel at the death of so distinguished a 
man at the beginning of a term of service which promised to bring 
into play his noblest qualities, and to mark a new epoch in the 
administration of the government ; that we look with melancholy 
pride as well upon the rare fortitude and Christian patience with 
which he endured extreme and prolonged pain as upon the 
lofty attributes of his character as statesman and as man ; and 
that we tender our profound sympathy with Mrs. Garfield, who 
from first to last has shown the best attributes of womanhood, 
and with the other members of a family who have tlius cruelly 
been robbed of their head. And be it further 

Eesolved, That we desire to express our grateful appreciation 
of the sorrow and sympathy evinced by all classes in Great Brit- 
ain, from Queen to peasant, witli the late President in his suffer- 
ing, with his family in their bereavement, and with the Pepublic 
in its grief ; that we especially recognize the depth and sincerity 



of the feeling manifested by the people of Europe at ever}- stage 
of the agony which culminated in death, and on the occasion of 
the loss which death entails ; that we value highly these evidences 
of affection and respect, and that we discern in the spontaneity 
and warmth of their display, and in the response they call forth 
from the American heart, the development of a force that will 
hereafter be beneficially felt in the relations of the two coun- 
tries, England and America. 

Before taking my seat, Mr. Chaii-man, permit me 
to say that, while we pause before the open grave of 
our dead President, where veiy soon his remains are 
to be forever hid from our view, and because of the 
wise provision made by our fathers in the estabhsh- 
ment of our government, another has taken upon 
himself the great office of President, and has issued 
a proclamation and an inaugural address which are 
filled with the highest evidences of his ability and 
fitness for the exalted office he holds. President 
Arthur has had large experience, and has shown 
great executive ability ; and has shown that he pos- 
sesses a conscience ever ready to respect the will of 
his countrymen. I was pained to read in the public 
joui-nals of England apprehensions that a corrupt 
party was coming into power in the American Re- 
public. These journals know very httlc of our insti- 
tutions if they suppose the American people will 
tolerate a corrupt government. The struggle for 



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office is everywhere fierce and exciting; but when 
the contest is over, the incumbent is answerable to 
the people, who will see that the government is faith- 
fully administered. In this trying hour President 
Arthur deserves the sympathy and support of the 
whole American people, whose love of country should 
rise above personal considerations. And, Mr. Presi- 
dent, I now ask you to submit the resolutions which 
have been read to this large gathering of Americans 
and of Europeans for their adoption and approval, 
after they have been, as I trust they will be, seconded 
by some gentleman present in an appropriate address. 



The Resolutions, as offered by General Bussey, 
were seconded by Hon. F. A. Ward, of the city of 
Brooklyn, N.Y., in an effective and eloquent address, 
which was listened to with marked attention ; after 
which they were submitted by the Chairman to the 
assembly, and were unanimousli/ adopted, in the midst 
of sad hearts and eyes filled with tears of grief. 



The addresses having been made and the resolu- 
tions adopted, the following National Hy^ln, having 
been announced by Bcv. John P. Newman, D.D., was 
sung, producing profound impressions : — 



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"MY COUNTRY! 'TIS OF THEE." 

My country ! 'tis of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, 

Of thee I sing : 
Land where my fathers died. 
Land of the pilgrims' pride. 
From every mountain's side 

Let freedom ring. 

My native country ! thee — 
Land of the noble free — 

Thy name I love : 
I love thy rocks and rills, 
Thy woods and templed hills ; 
]My heart with rapture thrills. 

Like that above. 

Let music swell the breeze. 
And ring from all the trees 

Sweet freedom's song : 
Let mortal tongues awake. 
Let all that breathe partake. 
Let rocks then* silence break, 

The sound prolong. 

Our fathers' God, to thee — 
Author of liberty — 

To thee we sing : 
Long may our land be bright 
"With freedom's holy light. 
Protect us by thy might. 

Great God, our King ! 



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The Hon. Augustus Belmont, of New York City, 
delivered an Address in the order stated on page 7 
hereof, which was of rare classical beauty and touch- 
ingly appropriate to the occasion, and it was atten- 
tively listened to by the large audience ; but a written 
copy of it has not been furnished for publication with 
the foregoing proceedings, which is much regretted 
by the Secretary, as no doubt it will be by those into 
whose hands this Memorial may come. 



The Secretary also regrets that the Hon. F. A. 
Ward did not furnish a written copy of his excellent 
and appropriate address for publication herein. 



At the request of a very large number of passen- 
gers on board the " Scythia," these memorial pro- 
ceedings have been published in the present form, 
together with " list of Saloon Passengers." 

LEWIS C. LILLIE, 

Secretary, 
Nos. G and 7 Bowdoin Square, 
Boston, Mass. 



LIST OF SALOON PASSENGERS. 



LIST OF SALOON PASSENGERS, PER ROYAL 'MAIL 
STEAMSHIP "SCYTHIA," 

(CAPT. MURPHY,) 

Liverpool to New York, Sept. 24, 1881. 



Mr. A. Ajuria. 

Miss Louisa Bain. 

Mr. Leon Backer. 

Mr. A. C. Baldwin, Boston, Mass. 

Mr. George Barclay, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. H. J. Barrett. 
]Mr. E. L. Baylies. 
Mrs. N. E. Baylies, New York, 

N.Y. 
Miss Baylies. 
Miss N. Baylies. 
Mr. James J. Belden, Syracuse, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. Jas. J. Belden, Syracuse, N.Y. 
Hon. Augustus BeliMOnt and 

man-servant, New York, N.Y. 
Miss Benogh. 
Mr. George C. Boden, Atlantic 

City, N.J. 
Mr. S. Boileau, Easton, Penn. 
Mrs. Boileau, Easton, Penn. 
Mrs. Bolton, child, and maid. 
Mr. Christian Bors, New York, 

N.Y. 



Mrs. Christian Bors, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. B. Bors, New York, N.Y. 
Rev. R. Russell Booth, D.D., New 

York, N.Y. 
Mrs. R. Russell Booth, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. A. Boyle. 
Rev. F. W. Braithwaite, Stamford, 

Conn. 
Miss Brandies. 
Mr. M. Bray, Boston, Mass. 
F. Brunning, M.D., Cincinnati, O. 
Gen. Cyrus Bussey, New Or- 
leans, La. 
Miss Butterworth, New York, N.Y. 
Mr. Franci C. Cantiue, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. J. W. Clark. 
Mr. George Clark. 
Mr. W. C. Clark. 
Mrs. H. C. Clarkener, St. Louis, Mo. 
Miss Clarkener, St. Louis, Mo. 
Mr. J. D. Clarkener, St. Louis, 

Mo. 



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90 



Mr. James Coats. 

Mrs. Coats. 

Mi3s Coats. 

^liss A. Coats. 

Miss Alice Coats. 

Mr. S. Coats. 

Mr. J. Coats, jun. 

Mr. F. Coats, man-servant, and 

maid-servant. 
Miss Flora E. Cole, Baltimore, Md. 
Mr. A. E. Connover, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. A. E. Connover, New York. 
Mr. W. H. Cook. 
JSIiss II. Com-tis. 
Dr. Craig. 
Mrs. Craig. 
Mr. O. Cranz. 
Miss Cropp. 

Mr. James C. Davis, Boston, Mass. 
Mrs. James C Davis, Boston, 

Mass. 
Miss Nellie Davis, Boston, Mass. 
]\Ii-. John H. Davis and man-ser- 
vant, New York, N.Y. 
Mrs. John II. Davis, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. Horace Demming, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. R. B. Dobie. 
]\Ir. E. J. Dougherty. 
Mrs. Dougherty. 
!Mr. E. Duvivier. 
Hon. Edward II. East, Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 



Mrs. Edward II. East, Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 
Mr. C. R. Eaton. 
Mrs. Eaton. 
Rev. Dr. Eccleston. 
Mr. J. Clinton Edgar, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. George AV. Elder and maid. 
Miss L. W. Elder. 
Mr. J. A. Fail-fas, San Francisco, 

Cal. 
Mrs. C. J. Fairfax, San Francisco, 

Cal. 
]Miss A. S. E. Fail-fax, San Fran- 
cisco, Cal. 
Miss A. C. Fairfax, San Francisco, 

Cal. 
Mrs. Fentress, 
iliss Fentress, 
^liss Fentress. 
Mrs. M. R. Field. 
A. Fleming, M.D., Fittsburg, 

Penn. 
Mrs. A. Fleming, Pittsburg, Penn. 
Mr. W. R. Fortune. 
Mr. Francis B. Foster, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. Edward J. Fox, Easton, Penn. 
Mrs. Edward J. Fox, Easton, 

Penn. 
Miss Fox, Easton, Penn. 
Rev. John Fox. 
Mr. J. F. Freeman. 
Mr. A. (Jailliard. 
ISIiss ]\Iary Glover. 



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Mrs. A. Goldsmith, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. Goldsmith. 
Mr. Harry B. Grey, Brooklyn, 

N.Y. 
Miss J. B. Greene, Buffalo, N.Y. 
Mr. Thomas Greenlees. 
Mr. H. W. Hammond, Liverpool, 

Eng. 
Mr. Sampson Hanbmy, Meldon, 

Eng. 
Mr. Alfred Hardie, Manitoba, 

Can. 
Miss Hardie. 
Mrs. S. Henry and child. 
Miss F. Henry. 
Mr. C. Henry. 
Hr. W. H. Herriman. 
Mrs. W. H. Herriman. 
Mr. W. Hidden. 
Mr. Edward Hill. 
Mr. Fred. Hill. 
Miss Hill. 
;Miss Hinshelwood. 
Mr. C. J. Hirst. 
Mr. N. B. Hogg, jun., Pittsburg, 

Penn. 
Mr. F. L. Holmquist, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. F. L. Holmquist, two chil- 
dren, and maid. New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. F. J. Hotop. 
Miss Meta Huger. 
Miss Huguenin. 



Mr. L. Hurbutt. 

Miss L. Hussey. 

Mr. J. S. Huyler. 

Miss James. 

Mr. S. J. Jervey. 

Mr. Henry W. Johnson, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. Henry W. Johnson, New 

York, N.Y. 
Mr. D. H. Joostin, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. A. D. JuUiard, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. A. D. Julliard, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. Horace Kelley, Cleveland, O. 
Mrs. Horace Kelley, Cleveland, O. 
Rev. James M. King, D.D., New 

York, N.Y. 
Mrs. James M. King, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. M. H. Kinney. 
Miss Kinney. 
Miss Lathrop. 

Mrs. E. W. Landon, three chil- 
dren, and governess. New York, 

N.Y. 
]\Ir. D. G. Leggett. 
Miss H. Legorju. 
Mr. Lewis C. Lillie, New York 

and Boston. 
Mr. W. H. Lippincott. 
jNIr. E. H. Lockyer, Bristol, Eng. 
Rev. ]\L J. Mastersox, Peabody, 

Mass. 



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MLss H. Mather. 

Mr. John McKee, New York, N.Y. 

Kev. M. T. McManus. 

Kev. II. N. ]\IcTyeiue, Nashville, 

Tenn. 
Miss McTyeike, Nashville, Tenn. 
.Mr. Alanlo Miams, Bristol, Eng. 
Mr. T. B. Mills. 
Mrs. T. B. Mills, three children, 

and sei"vant. 
Mr. A. Minis, jun., New York, N.Y. 
Mr. W. J. Mitchell. 
Mr. Peter ]\Ioller, jun. 
Mrs. Peter MoUer. 
I\Iiss MoUer. 
Mr. E. C. MoUer. 
Miss Sarah Morrow, New York, 

N.Y. 
!Miss Eliza Mote. 

Alexander Muiihead, M.D., Lon- 
don, Eng. 
Mr. Henry James Muirhead, Lon- 
don, Eng. 
INIiss L. M. Nathurst. 
jMr. William James Neill, New 

York, N.Y. 
Mrs. 'William James Neill, New 

York, N.Y. 
llev. John- P. Newman, P.D., 

New York, N.Y. 
Mrs. John P. Newman, New 

York, N.Y. 
Hon. Marcus P. Nokton and 
man-servant, New York and 
Boston. 



Miss Can-ie T. Newman, New 

York, N.Y. 
Mrs. T. B. Oakley. 
Miss N. O'Douohue. 
Sister M. J. O'Donohue. 
Sister M. S. O'Malley. 
:\Ir. J. B. Palmer, Concord, N.H. 
Mrs. J. B. Palmer, Concord, N.H. 
Mrs. G. H. Palmer, Concord, N.H. 
Miss A. Parker. 
Mr. M. Paton. 
Hon Charles A. Peabody, New 

York, N.Y. 
Mrs. Charles A. Peabody, New 

York, N.Y. 
Professor J. ]\L Peirce. 
]Mr. C. Pennington. 
Mr. C. C. Perkins. 

Mr. C. B. Perkins. 

Mr. J. Lamb Perry. 

Miss L. Phillips, New York, N.Y. 

Ur. H. Pickney. 

:\Irs. H. C. Plass, New York, N.Y. 

:\Ir. T. T. Pandolph. 

Miss L. Kandolph. 

]Miss E. Randolph. 

Miss L. T. Randolph. 

Mr. J. H. Richmond. 

Mr. C B. Robinson, London, 
Eng. 

John A. Rogers, M.D., Paterson, 
N.J. 

Mr. John G. Rollins, London, Eng. 

Mrs. John G. Rollins, London, 
Ensr. 



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Miss Eollins, London, Eng. 
Miss Rollins, London, Eng. 
Hon. U. M. Rose, Little Rock, Ark. 
Mr. J. Rosenthal, New York, N.Y. 
Mrs. J. Rosenthal, New York, N.Y. 
Miss Rosenthal, New York, N.Y. 
]Mr. John L.Ross, Cambridge, Mass. 
Mrs. John L. Ross, Cambridge, 

Mass. 
INIr. Denham Ross. 
Miss Rubino and maid. 
Mr. Rubino. 
Mr. Stillwell H. Russell, Austin, 

Tex. 
Miss Ryder. 

Mr. L. Sabriskie. 

Mr. N. E. Sainsbury. 

Madame Santin. 

Rev. Horace D. Sassaman, Erwin- 
na, Penn. 

Miss Sawyer. 

Mr. William J. Sawyer, Allegheny 
City, Penn. 

Mrs. John Scott, child, and maid. 

Mr. E. Shannon, Norfolk, Va. 

Mr. S. J. Shell. 

Miss N. Shoemaker. 

IMiss M. E. Shoemaker. 

Miss B. Shoemaker. 

Mr. A. Shrewsbury. 

Mr. E. Siegel. 

'Mi. J. Sillem, Amsterdam, Hoi 
land. 

Mr. I. W. Spiegelberg. 

Miss H. Stern, St. Louis, Mo. 



Miss Fannie Stern, St. Louis, IMo. 
Mr. Byam K. Stevens, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mr. K. Stevens, New York, N.Y. 
Mr. Hugh A. Stirling. 
Mr. J. H. Strahan. 
jSIi's. J. H. Strahan. 
Miss Strahan. 
]Mr. T. W. Strong. 
Miss M. Stump. 
^h-. R. B. Symington, New York, 

N.Y. 
Mrs. R. B. Symington, child, and 

maid. 
Mr. Richard Synnot, Melbom-ne, 

Victoria, Australia. 
Mr. Daniel Tahnage, New York, 
N.Y. 

Rev. D. A. Tivenan, Brooklyn, 
N.Y. 

Dr. H. Tuholske. 

Mrs. H. Tuholske, child, and maid. 

Mr. Edmund Tweedale. 

Mr. C. T. H. Vagt. 

Mr. L. Yasquez. 

Mr. E. Vedder. 

Mrs. E. Vedder and two children. 

Mr. J. W. Vernon. 

Professor J. M. Van ^Heck. 

Hon. F. A. Ward, Brooklpi, N.Y. 

Mrs. F. A. Ward, Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Miss M. Ward, Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Lieut. -Col. Wickham. 



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Mr. Alan Williams. 

Mr. C. ^V. Wiufield, Beaver Dam, 

Wis. 
Mrs. C. W. Winfield, Beaver Dam, 

Wis. 
Mr. T. Wolfe, jun., Xew Orleans, 

La. 
Mrs. Womersly. 



Mrs. Woodside. 
Miss Woodside. 
]Mr. B. W. Woodward, Lawrence, 

Kansas. 
Mrs. B. AV. Woodward. 
Mrs. Wyckoff. 
Miss IL Yorke. 
Mies M. Yorke. 



9!n jBicmoriara. 



MEMORIAL SERVICES 



IN HONOR OF 



JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD, 

®&e (ittnentietb prejjibent of tfte ZSniteD .$)tatEi^. 

HELD AT SEA, 
ON THE CUNARD STEAMSHIP "SCYTHIA," 

September 26, 1881. 



Hon. MARCUS P. NORTON, 

OF NEW YORK AND BOSTON, 

CHAIRMAN. 

LEWIS C. LILLIE, 

OF NEW YORK AND BOSTON, 

SECRETARY. 



Seconli lEtiition. 



BOSTON: 

FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, & CO. 

1882. 






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